New Mexico's Path to Statehood

True or False: Before becoming a state, people living in New Mexico were perceived as foreigners by the citizens of the U.S.

• True

• False

One of the biggest obstacles for New Mexico to become a state was that people in the U.S. ​believed...

(choose three correct answers)

• people in the New Mexico Territory were foreigners.

• people in the New Mexico Territory were poor.

• people in the New Mexico Territory were lawless and dangerous.

• people in the New Mexico Territory thought they were better than the rest of the U.S.

True or False: The Railroad through N.M. changed people's perspective on New Mexico because people were traveling to the state.

• True

• False

True or False: New Mexican's didn't want to participate in the Mexican American war, further damaging their reputation in the eyes of the rest of the U.S.

• True

• False

In what year did New Mexico become the 47th state in the U.S.?

• 1912

• 1927

• 1886

• 1900

New Mexico became a territory in 1850, then a state in 1912.
How many years passed before NM became the 47th state?

• 52 years

• 62 years

• 72 years

• 42 years